Can't set up airport express with new Airport Extreme

I have a new aiport extreme base station and two
airport expresses. All was well till I tried to
plug
in a hard drive then the base station needed to be
reset. Now I can't get it to recognize the aiport
expresses. I have to do a factory reset on the
express to even get it to recognize it in the
Airport
Utility. I follow the instructions to have it
join
my existing network, I get to the point where it
says
I have successfully joined the network and the
express will restart, but I never get a green
light
on the express and then I can't locate it while
using
the airport utility.
is there something in the configuration of the
airport extreme that is blocking this?
Are you trying to use the expresses in WDS or client
mode? If you are trying to use WDS, do you have WDS
enabled on the main extreme base station?
I hae been using client mode as best as I can tell. I have been going through the setup with the express and chosing to join an exisiting network and not extend the range of the current network.

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